Meet Harry Dresden Chicagos first (and only) Wizard P.I. Turns out the everyday world is full of strange & magical things
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This is a new edition of an outstanding picture book by one of the most popular of all contemporary author/illustrators. On Thursday morning at a quarter past ten Joseph Kaye notices something odd about the kettle... Thus begins a remarkable day for Joseph a day in which everything seems to change in the most peculiar of ways. The washbasin grows feet the armchair becomes a gorilla his bicycle wheel turns into an apple... Josephs father had said when hed left that morning that everything was going to change. But what had he meant? The book explores the boys state of mind as he prepares for the return of his parents with his new baby sister. ...

To dare to love... Heart surgeon Dr Peter Hallam was trained to fight time to conquer odds beyond hope. He had saved the lives of countless strangers only to see his own wife die tragically beyond the reach of his healing hands. Months later the deep wound of loss had begun to heal as he learned to live without love. Melanie Adams television newscaster lived for her work & her children: nothing else mattered. On screen she was the ultimate professional covering the biggest stories & meeting the hardest deadlines but she was lonely inside. After heartbreak & desertion she had made her way to the top alone. & she like Peter had learned to live without love. But one day for Peter & Melanie everything changes. ...

' Up- to-date & reflective of new government policy this book will be an essential resource for all Senior Leaders & SENCOs.'
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Providing expert insight into the ways the nation's metropolitan areas are changing this book explores the land use issues that affect quality of life & makes recommendations for reducing sprawl & dependence on cars encouraging sustainability investing in infrastructure & addressing other issues such as workforce housing availability shopping & leadership in land use. ...

Anna Gallagher & Liam Harrison are happily married have successful careers & when Liam's promotion comes through they plan to start a family. That's until something happens to turn their world upside down. Anna's sister Rachel is married to Gary is a stay-at-home mum to Alex & is expecting her second child. Everyone is delighted with the news except Rachel. The truth is she is horrified at the thought of becoming a mum again. Jill is the girls' cousin & best friend & knows exactly what makes them both tick. Unfortunately she can't seem to help them understand each other. The Gallagher Girls have hard times ahead but when the going gets tough will blood really prove thicker than water? ...

Chaos exists in systems all around us. Even the simplest system of cause & effect can be subject to chaos denying us accurate predictions of its behaviour & sometimes giving rise to astonishing structures of large-scale order. Our growing understanding of Chaos Theory is having fascinating applications in the real world
- from technology to global warming politics human behaviour & even gambling on the stock market. Leonard Smith shows that we all have an intuitive understanding of chaotic systems. He uses accessible maths & physics (replacing complex equations with simple examples like pendulums railway lines & tossing coins) to explain the theory & points to numerous examples in philosophy & literature (Edgar Allen Poe Chang-Tzu Arthur Conan Doyle) that illuminate the problems. The beauty of fractal patterns & their relation to chaos as well as the history of chaos & its uses in the real world & implications for the philosophy of science are all discussed in this Very Short Introduction.
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This book brings together different work in the new field of physics called the chaos theory an extension of classical mechanics in which simple & complex causes are seen to interact. Mathematics may only be able to solve simple linear equations which experiment has pushed nature into obeying in a limited way but now that computers can map the whole plane of solutions of non-linear equations a new vision of nature is revealed. The implications are staggeringly universal in all areas of scientific work & philosophical thought. ...

Chaos in Death When eye-witness testimony paints the killer as a green skinned monster with swollen red eyes & goblin ears even Eve Dallas is shaken. But as she gets closer the trail suggests something even more disturbing
- someone is playing at science.. . Possession in Death After a Russian woman whispers her dying words to Eve Dallas strange things begin to happen. Unable to concentrate on anything Eve realises that in order to reclaim her mind she must find the woman's great-granddaughter
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Emilio & Rosa are childhood sweethearts engaged to be married. But it is 1942 & the war has taken Emilio far from Italy to a tiny Orkney island where he is a POW. Rosa must wait for him to return & help her mother run the family hotel on the shores of Lake Como in Italy. Feeling increasingly frustrated with his situation Emilio is inspired by the idea of building a chapel on the barren isl&. The prisoners band together to create an extraordinary building out of little more than salvaged odds & ends & homemade paints. Whilst Emilios chapel will remain long after the POW camp has been left to the sheep will his love for Rosa survive the hardships of war & separation? For Rosa is no longer the girl that he left behind. She is being drawn further into the Italian resistance movement & closer to danger as friendships & allegiances are ever complicated by the war. Human perseverance & resilience are at the heart of this strong debut & the small Italian chapel remains as it does in reality on the island of Lambs Holm as a symbol of these qualities. ...